Friday, 31 March 2017

The death of freeserve

I have had my beloved freeserve email address for decades. I like it a lot.

Current owners EE have decided to ditch email and that means all Orange email accounts.

Freeserve is an old, very old version of Orange. It moonlighted as wanadoo for a while en route. It's like the Oracle in the Matrix, an ancient programme in a fickle system.

Well in two months time decades of freeserving will be no more.

I shall now begin the sad process of replacing my freeserve email, saving thousands of emails [56,000 to be exact] from 2001 onwards and then updating everyone that needs to know my new address. A technological wake I suppose.

EE recommend gmail. Google. One thing to rule them all.

This blog won't be affected apart from the contact link at the bottom of the page. I will change that when I've put Freeserve to rest.

4 comments:

I still have my freeserve email (it was my first one) but I've phased it out of my life as I thought this was coming. They'll be getting rid of the red flag guy in front of cars next, then the semaphore will go and possibly supersonic airliners, hovercraft and moon missions. Oh hang on, have I missed something?...

Have to say, Woodstock, youve lasted remarkably well. I cut my teeth on the internet with Freeserve, with a riduculously long email - billyb@stonehenge.freeserve.co.uk or something equally daft. Then I got as far as an Fsmail address, before being sequestered to Wanadoo, then Orange before I got cheesed off and migrated to Gmail and havent looked back!